The module below the HTML module is a Navigation module. If you would like to display links to Pages in your site as menu items in the nav bar, this module should be set as "Builder Settings Pages" type. The list of Pages that should appear as menu items in this setting can be controlled by going to My Theme -> Settings.

The module below the HTML module is a Navigation module. If you would like to display links to Pages in your site as menu items in the nav bar, this module should be set as "Builder Settings Pages" type. The list of Pages that should appear as menu items in this setting can be controlled by going to My Theme -> Settings.

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If you would like to display a special character like ★ to the left of menu item as in the demo site, go to Appearance -> Menus. Create a custom menu there with your desired links. The special character can be typed in the Label field when adding a custom link. To use this custom menu in the nav bar, the navigation module's type should be set to "Custom Menu - ''<name of your menu>''".

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If you would like to display a special character like ★ to the left of menu item as in the demo site, go to Appearance -> Menus. Create a custom menu there with your desired links. The special character can be pasted in the Label field when adding a custom link. To use this custom menu in the nav bar, the navigation module's type should be set to "Custom Menu - ''<name of your menu>''".

Leave the Style dropdown at Default.

Leave the Style dropdown at Default.

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This should be a Widget Bar module with 2 widgets. On the page, this module's content will be displayed directly above the footer.

Widget Widths: 30% / 70%

Widget Widths: 30% / 70%

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Click on Configure Views in layout manager. Add a view to associate "Home" view with the layout that has been created for the site's front page.

Click on Configure Views in layout manager. Add a view to associate "Home" view with the layout that has been created for the site's front page.

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=Americana Libertas PSD files=

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Header image PSD can be downloaded from [http://ge.tt/#7vgYfqm here].

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PSD of name.png, the image which appears in the left side of footer: http://www.mediafire.com/file/7tjrri5a1osdlj7/name.psd. Thanks to [http://ithemes.com/forum/index.php?/topic/11831-americana-theme-thomas-whitmore/#p55530 Frank].

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[[Image:Name-graphic-americana.png|200px|none]]

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=Americana Interstate PSD files=

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Header image PSD can be downloaded from [http://cl.ly/26351q1A3g2x1H0g1U28 here].

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The font used for "INTERSTATE" in the logo is Bebas which can be downloaded free from [http://www.dafont.com/bebas.font here].

=How to customize the VOTE, DONATE and VOLUNTEER images=

=How to customize the VOTE, DONATE and VOLUNTEER images=

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Americana has been updated to include the .psd file needed to edit the VOTE, DONATE and VOLUNTEER graphics. This .psd file can also be downloaded from http://d.pr/XOQt.

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Americana has been updated to include the PSD file needed to edit the VOTE, DONATE and VOLUNTEER graphics. This PSD file can also be downloaded from http://d.pr/XOQt.

# Download League Gothic font from [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/League-Gothic here] to your computer. Extract the zip file, right click on "League_Gothic.otf" and select Install.

# Download League Gothic font from [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/League-Gothic here] to your computer. Extract the zip file, right click on "League_Gothic.otf" and select Install.

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# Open the .psd file in a program like Adobe Photoshop or the free [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP].

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# Open the PSD file in a program like Adobe Photoshop or the free [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP].

# Select the vote layer. Switch to text tool, click on VOTE text and replace it with your desired text. You can similarly change the text "for this awesome person".

# Select the vote layer. Switch to text tool, click on VOTE text and replace it with your desired text. You can similarly change the text "for this awesome person".

# Save the optimized image for web in your desired file format (the images in the demo are in .png format)

# Save the optimized image for web in your desired file format (the images in the demo are in .png format)

How to set up Americana to look like the demo site

Introduction

Go to My Theme -> Layouts. Duplicate "960 Home" as say, "Americana Home". If you have deleted the stock "960 Home" layout, create a new one and ensure that its width is 960px. Set this as default layout (for now). Hide widget areas of all other layouts. Edit this layout..

Module 1

Select "Blue background" in Style dropdown and enable PHP. Save the module and save the layout.

Refresh your site's front page. You should be now seeing your site's title which links to the site's address at the top in blue background. Site Name and Site Address (URL) values can be changed at Settings -> General.

Module 2

The module below the HTML module is a Navigation module. If you would like to display links to Pages in your site as menu items in the nav bar, this module should be set as "Builder Settings Pages" type. The list of Pages that should appear as menu items in this setting can be controlled by going to My Theme -> Settings.

If you would like to display a special character like ★ to the left of menu item as in the demo site, go to Appearance -> Menus. Create a custom menu there with your desired links. The special character can be pasted in the Label field when adding a custom link. To use this custom menu in the nav bar, the navigation module's type should be set to "Custom Menu - <name of your menu>".

Leave the Style dropdown at Default.

Module 3

This should be a Navigation module that is either a "Builder Settings Categories" type or "Custom Menu - <name of your menu>".
Style dropdown should be set to "Subnav Blue".

Note: If you have set this to show categories, the category names that should appear as menu items can be controlled at My Theme -> Settings under "Menu Builder" section. Only those categories that contain at least 1 published post will appear in the nav bar.

Module 4

This should be a Widget Bar module with 3 widgets.

Widget widths: 33% / 33% / 33%

Style: Blue (full width)

Go to Appearance -> Widgets. Populate the top 3 widget areas with text widgets having code similar to the following (You should change the URLs of the images and their corresponding hyperlinks):

In the demo site, the dimension of each image appearing to the left of post excerpt (on front page)/content (when viewed in full) is 250px by 250px.

In the post editor screen, type the content of the post first. Then place the cursor before the first character. Scroll down to "Featured Image" box at the right side and click on "Set featured image" link. Select and upload your desired image for this post. Set Alignment to Left. Click "Use as featured image" link. click "Insert into Post" button. Publish the post.

Module 6

This should be a Widget Bar module with 2 widgets. On the page, this module's content will be displayed directly above the footer.

You might want to of course change the URL of image in the above and other hyperlinks.

Right widget

This is a 'Recent Posts" widget.

Module 7

This should be the Footer module.

Conclusion

This concludes setting up of layout for front page.

Next step would be to duplicate this layout and call it something like "Americana Content". You might want to use Duplicate Sidebar Widget to duplicate the widgets of front page onto those of this layout. Set this as your default layout and add/edit any widgets to your liking.

Click on Configure Views in layout manager. Add a view to associate "Home" view with the layout that has been created for the site's front page.

How to stop the navigation module from stretching full width

By default, background of navigation module in Americana (any color variant) stretches full width from left edge to the right edge of browser. If you would like to restrict it to the container width, edit theme's style.css.

Comment out or delete the ".builder-module-navigation-outer-wrapper" selector block.